Canadian citizen joins suit against Korean government alleging irreparable harm to forests and climate from use of British Columbia wood pellets
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Finance standards reject EU’s biomass “sustainability criteria” as not protecting forests and the climate
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If the Baker administration gets their way, more so-called “clean energy” in MA will come from burning garbage and biomass
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Combustion physics lend support to a minor rebellion against lawmakers who legislated biomass as “carbon neutral”
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Dominion-Flavored Doublespeak Will Weaken Climate Progress
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Only one pathway avoids dangerous temperature rise without relying on unscalable and unproven technologies.
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Even ignoring the CO2 coming out the smokestack, the new policy sets a lifecycle emissions standard that imported wood pellets can’t meet
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Co-firing biomass with coal will increase emissions, decrease power plant efficiency, and increase forest destruction, to boot.
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Burning wood for power undermines efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, even under industry best-case scenarios.
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The regulations allow unprecedented double-dipping of renewable energy subsidies by polluting bioenergy
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